[spectre] Dharma < The Red Breath > Initiation

[franck ancel]

“The perception which your spirit operates is not produced by the light, 
without what you would be unable to perceive the darkness”.
Jack Kerouac, DHARMA.

For the last few years, I have been interested in several sites on the 
five continents for my project about the sacred “Red Breath”. The temple 
of Borobudur, on the island of Java in Indonesia, is one of these 
places. For this reason, I propose my participation from Paris in the 
festival Cellsbutton in Yogyakarta, located in a few kilometers of the 
temple.

The spirit of this festival resonates with art labs questioning science, 
like Makrolab in Slovenia or hackitectura.net in LABora, Spain. In the 
television fiction “Lost”, a cell of scientific researchers appear on an 
island. It is the “Dharma Initiative”. In one of its stations, a code 
must be entered on a computer to prevent an electromagnetic explosion.

Using these elements, I'm publishing a free badge, in collaboration with 
graphic designer Claire Morel, in a limited edition of a hundred for the 
participants of the festival. It shows the architectural plan of 
Borobudur which is a mandala, with the logo of Cellsbutton in the center 
(not the logo of “Dharma Initiative”). I propose a general order, a 
“Dharma”. As each participant pushes his computer button ON/OFF, I ask 
him to think of his life during these few seconds, in another way than 
ON/OFF… for a different future.

Our invitation thus tries to show the importance of context and gesture, 
towards an open consciousness of digital globalization, of a possible 
network of energies.

Namasté
FA

http://www.franck-ancel.com/atx

(English text from French translated by Princesse X)